A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.

Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.

Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.